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As if the following from the first paragraphs wasn't enough of an indicator: "technologists, historians, journalists, academics, and sometimes the coders themse
by woodpanel 4y ago
As if the following from the first paragraphs wasn't enough of an indicator: "technologists, historians, journalists, academics, and sometimes the coders themselves,” explaining “how code works" but it only gets better:
- A guy gets to present his theory of the racist software infrastructure, as "a Professor" while one has to scan his Twitter timeline to see him as the political hack that he is. Bosch should have pointed out he worked for the DNC (On a general note: Hey America, you do realize there are people outside of your country without the slightest interest in having their own history bent over your domestic infighting?).
- Of course our databases are racist, mysoginistic and transphobic - just as we are (“The next frontier in gender rights is inside databases.”)!
- Book title's like Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech are just slipped in, like they aren't the giant red flag of bias that they are.
- "I’ve been really interested over the past several years to watch the power of the tech activists and tech labor movements" is giving me straight up maoist vibes of the 1970s when upper-class academics in Western Europe larped as "working-class" in and around auto-manufacturing sites, but the working class wasn't having it.
Let's see whether that failure also repeats itself and how the outfall of this will look (the snubbed academics then turned to "the environment" as a new ward allwing them to more openly spite the "Lumpenproletariat")